RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) | MOVIE REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING
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00:00 - Intro/Preview
01:24 - Reaction
30:51 - Review/Outro - Розваги
My dad told my brother and I that he was taking us to church and we were going to learn about the 10 Commandments. Instead he took us to an old theater in Manhattan and we saw Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Best Sunday ever.
That's similar to things my mother would do. She would call the school in the middle of the year and tell them some excuse like I had a doctor's appointment. I would be clueless about what was going on and she would take me to lunch and then a movie. I was sworn to secrecy and if I told anyone from teachers to my siblings, she said she would never do it again. I never had children but if I did, I would do that with them. It made me feel special.
Very Cool
@@nikolatesla5553 I wonder if she did that on different days with the other kids as well... or if you only had brothers maybe your father did the "special" days with them.... that would be sweet.
But if it was only YOU?.....That makes you a Spoilt Princess right there. 😀😅🤣👍👊
What an awesome memory. That really made me smile.
Thanks for sharing. 😀👍👊
Well, technically, dad did take you to church, you learned all about the ark of the covenant. 😉
This movie is so good that just watching snippets is better than 99% of other movies.
Legit one of the most perfect movies ever made.
When you fought Top Man, did you see where he had put the Ark?
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That's a hilarious but excellent observation :) haha love it!
I mean, for me? Its the greatest movie ever.
Yep, its still better then about 90% of movies released now.
It’s not the years honey, it’s the mileage.
Best line ever from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
And it was an ad-lib from Harrison Ford!!
I've been known to use it myself..😁
Best line from Spielberg: "The monkey giving the salute. George's idea and .... nuts, just nuts."
"I feel like seeing it in a theater as a kid at that time would have been epic."
It was. Oh yes, it was. I was nine years old in 1981 and it was amazing. Still one of the greatest adventure movies ever made.
I recall the theatre chuckling "ho ho HO" when Ford turns around at the start of the film!
Correction THE greatest !!
The smash cut to George McFly laughing, perfect.
That was great
best part, great edit
absolutely perfect
You should do that more. Hilarious
That made me go from merely liking this channel to downright adoring her as a person.
This movie isn't like national treasure. National treasure is like Raiders of the lost ark. Lol. I'm glad you enjoyed one of my most favorite movies.
seen national treasure but not raiders.. tsktsk smdh
National Treasure is discount Indiana Jones
Great movie kind of ruined when you figure out that Jones isn't really required in it as it would of ended the same way if he wasn't there.
Yeah, I cringed when she said that.
National Treasure wishes it was Indiana Jones.
Memories, memories... as a ten-year-old kid, watching this movie in a packed cinema. When Indy shoots the Arab with the sword, the entire cinema erupted in the biggest roar of laughter you've ever heard.
The most rip-roaringly fun movie ever made.
The fact that it was improvised because of food poisoning makes it even funnier to me
Indiana Jones is just great cinema at its core. It doesn't take itself too seriously, Its simple story telling, its sense of adventure, gotta save the girl and defeat the bad guy.. its an undeniable classic!
Harrison Fords prime was the 80’s through the 90’s. He made a lot of great, and memorable movies. The Fugitive is one you’ll probably like a lot.
The Fugitive was adapted from a classic b&w tv show, whose finale was the first one of its series in color (if I remember right). It was one of my dad's favorite series, and it was one of the best movies to come from the 90's also. I second the recommendation.
YOU'RE FORGETTING "STAR WARS" WHICH CAME OUT IN 1977!!
@@tonystark5-29-70 I didn’t forget, but I said prime. That was his beginning, besides American Graffiti. And Empire and Return were 80’s so I figured Star Wars trilogy was included in my generalization
@@MikeB12800 I agree with you. He did so much in those two decades. Witness is another great one.
@@MikeB12800 BUT I WOULD SAY HIS PRIME STARTED WITH "STAR WARS"!!
“Cowboy, safari, adventure man.” Nailed it.
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With a tearful look, "Just smashes his watermelon." 25:26 broke me in fucking two man.
She’s not wrong about the series 🤠 🐴 🏜 ⚔️!!
All rolled into one
I shrank a lot at that
"This is like National Treasure."
Part of me died inside.
I feel you!
it's always funny when people think the copy came before the original... lol
@@stevestarr3160 I don't think she thinks that, the release year is right there in the title. She probably saw National Treasure first so that's her reference point and yeah, from that perspective Raiders is like National Treasure.
It is a little like National Treasure. I enjoy National Treasure from time to time. (Bit of a guilty pleasure really.) But Raiders is a vastly superior film in every way.
Ya this made me cringe a bit as well, but entirely understandable from her context.. clearly a hyper-derivative film, that in so many ways itself is just laughable. And quite like someone watching "E.T" for the first time and think .. hey this is just like "Mac and Me"
Fun fact: Indy's "I don't know....I'm making this up as I go" line was Harrison Ford ad-libbing because he forgot his line. Steven Spielberg loved it and kept it in the movie.
Great reaction as always, Cassie! You are just the sweetest! 😊
I reckon that line was in the original script ... and it's just a whole legend has built up around some elements of the film.
Like with Indy choosing to shoot the guy with the sword, I reckon that too was in the original screenplay .. but it was considered by Spielberg and Lucas that the story of Ford taking it upon himself to make changes while shooting was just too attractive to pass up.
@@fergalhughes165 According to the records, a lot of the crew got physically ill during the on location shooting in North Africa. The scene was originally supposed to be Indy fighting the big swordsman with the whip...but Ford had a severe case of "turista"...diarrhea probably due to strange food. He simply didn't have the strength to do an intense combat scene. Ford suggested they shorten the scene by simply having him shoot the swordsman. As for the other film crew who had gut issues, apparently only Spielberg avoided it...by eating only canned food he had brought with him...cans of Spaghetti-Os.
@@fergalhughes165 your "reckoning" means nothing. The facts remain what they are.
Not true about the dialogue. That's just one of those urban myths that's grown up around this movie. The line is in the original screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan.
The shooting of the swordsman, however, was indeed an improvisation made that day because of Ford's illness
The government agent on the left at 6:37 is William Hootkins, who played the X-Wing pilot Porkins in Star Wars
I've watched all of these movies so many times and that's still something I didn't know. Nice to see that there's still things to learn, thanks.
he is major eaton in this....another food name lol
dont forget eckhart in batman 89
Jek Porkins, Red Six: " I can hold it! No I'm alri...!"
"Stay on target" guy?
I’m not sure if you knew, but the guy who plays the Nazi, Colonel Dietrich, (Wolf Kahler) also plays the German general who gives the speech at the end of Band of Brothers.
He also played the King of Bohemia opposite Jeremy Brett in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia," 1984.
@@earlofbroadst My god, yes, the jaw line! Perfect casting indeed.
Oh, yeah! "Ich bin stoltz..."
@@neilgriffiths6427 *stolz
Oh damn, you're right!
Fun fact Indy’s Egyptian friend Salla is the same actor who played Gimli in Lord of the Rings and voiced Treebeard
And he played Leonardo DaVinci in Star Trek Voyager.
He was GREAT in the original television series "Shogun" from the 1970s. The guy never aged!
When Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert first reviewed this movie, Ebert commented that it began (the opening scenes with the golden idol and the booby trapped cave) with the excitement and adventure that most movies ENDED with! It starts out on a high note and only goes higher....and higher...and higher! Any movie that ends with the intervention of God is a pretty intense ride. Good review!
My high school theater arts teacher dated Harrison Ford in college. Apparently he was very popular even before becoming a star.
Duh. Look at Harrison Ford. Movies or no movies. He was easy on the eyes. And he was a carpenter before all the movie stardom. He would do carpentry work for L.A.musicians. I think Carlos Santana was one of his clients, but was unknown at the time. Hands on as well as good looking.
I can believe it.
@@m2c_tave689 He was a roadie with The Doors as well. He's lived a life has old Harrison.
@@shugaroony He's also a carpenter as well.
How old was your old high school drama teacher, when she first met Harrison Ford from college?
Homegirl seriously started humming the final countdown, amazing.
@@yt45204 that band's name is Europe
@@yt45204 there's a band named "America"
@@yt45204 Europe isn't a country it's a continent.
@@yt45204 Europe is not a country. There is a European union but it's made up of several countries.
Also Greenland isn't a continent,it's an island. Only island that's a continent is Australia.
Fun fact: The guy in the beginning going through the place with Indy, is Alfred Molina who plays Doc Ock in Spider Man with Toby Maguire.
12:47 fun fact about that scene if you havent heard it already: Originally it was written that Indiana would have sword fight with this guy, but Harrison Ford was so sick that day that they just changed it to Jones shooting the guy instead :D
I've heard that. It's probably bullshit.
Harrison was also sick as half the cast had the flu
As an archaeologist I really wish it was this exciting!
I was 10 when this came out and ALL the kids wanted to be archaelogists. There was a camp the next school year right before summer in which we spent a week away and signed up for various activities. It was a lot like signing up for college classes, you had to sign up for various things before the 'class' was full, and every kid wanted to be part of the archaelogy sessions. So much so that the line for it was several times bigger than any reasonable expectation to participate. One of the counselors was yelling out, "this will not be like Raiders of the Lost Ark! Other activities are available for you to join"". Stupid adult. We knew he was wrong. I spent four days cleaning rocks with a paintbrush and measuring things with knotted string, while humming "Dah duh dah dahhh, da duh daaaaa".
It’s not as action packed but I would still say it’s exciting! I’ll bet this movie really inspired a lot of people to get into archeology even after they found out it wasn’t like the movies
@@ZenzeroCAM It’s why I studied Archaeology.
Archaeology was more exciting in the 30s and 40s than it is now. Not this exciting. But still more treasure hunting and less scientific.
Yeah, you would say that, wouldn’t you? Don’t want anyone else getting in on the action, do ya? Come on! I bet you’re riding U-Boats and punching Nazis out of trucks all the time! 🤣
I would say this is the beginning of Harrison Fords Prime. It started with Star Wars and then right into Indy. Until Tom Hanks came along and stopped making comedies, Harrison Ford was the biggest star in Hollywood.
Witness was a great Harrison Ford movie. His best serious role. Weird Al spoofed it. It was that good. One of my underrated favourites.
He was great in a variety of films, too, box office hits that garnered awards. Ford, unlike other action heroes like Arnold or Sylvester very often played parodies of themselves, in B movies. Ford was in well produced, highly regarded action (Raiders), drama (Witness), even rom coms (Working Girl), each of them critically acclaimed and award winning, all Best Picture nominees at the Oscars. Of course Blade Runner and The Empire Strikes Back are sci-fi classics. Ford was a baller in his prime!
The warehouse ending is so perfect. It was God hiding it again.
And was the inspiration for the TV show, "Warehouse 13"
@@Cg23sailor I was thinking the same thing. Was the ark ever one of the artifacts in the tv show?
Actually, it was an homage to a much earlier movie, "Citizen Kane", 1939, by Orson Wells, a recreation of the final scene in that movie, an overhead tracking shot of a warehouse cluttered with the possessions a rich man, Kane, had collected over a long and acquisitive lifetime.
kingdom of crystal skull: “was” perfect
Agreed!
I’m not a huge fan of reaction channels but your reactions are so wholesome it makes my heart weep. When Sallah and Indy are claiming the Ark and you said Sallah needs to be safe for his children. I had to pause the video because I got emotional. And I’m a dude who has seen this movie will over 40 times!
Same, people (around me or anywhere) really seem so jaded when watching anything. It is really refreshing to see this. She is really experiencing these movies fully.
Agreed gents. I can’t help but feel Ms. Cassie is the audience every good movie deserves and that any honest and halfway decent filmmaker would admit wanting as an audience.
That’s awesome, man! Completely mirrors how I feel about these reaction videos too! I know there’s a million of these reactors out there but this is one of two channels that I’m subscribed to and watch religiously.
I think part of the magic is that we get to relive that feeling of awe and wonder we had when we were children seeing these movies for the first time. Cassie (is that her name?) seems to capture that spirit and honestly, as I get older (39 yo here), it’s harder and harder to feel that sense of discovery and adventure and “magic” in my life, especially in movies or tv. So that’s my take on it!
Anyway, it’s been lots of fun and I’m all in for it! Sorry for the novel! Haha
@@freddiestranger9783 But, under no circumstances open the Ark of the Covenant.
His prime? I guess you could say that. The man who plays Indiana Jones, Han Solo and Rick Deckard. He is an American legend!
Don’t forget he also plays Jack Ryan!
last of the old guard of actors a true legend.
I think this was when he was still starting out, fresh off of Star Wars. He's not quite "prime" yet. Late 80s through the mid 90s is Harrison Ford at his prime.
@@Bartlebycs arguable, he had a bit part in apocalypse now, Blade Runner and of course the Star wars stuff, then later Indy...so yeah in the early 80s still fining himself I suppose.
@@testpattern23 Blade Runner was filmed after Raiders. ;) I didn't even know he was in Apocalypse Now O.O
Father took me to see this at a local cinema in Paris, 1981, I just turned 8. What an experience it was. An amazing flick for Gen X. (and pretty much everyone else).
This film wasn't originally expected to be a huge hit, but the year it was released, it remained in the top 10 at the box office week after week for nearly a year, and people fell back in line to rewatch it, not to mention all the great word of mouth.
One of my best movie-going experiences was thanks to Raiders. I saw it on its initial release in an old-fashioned movie palace, a place with something like 1000 seats and a balcony. It was packed with an audience full of anticipation for this Speilberg-Lucas-Ford collaboration, and word of mouth was very positive. A moment arrived, during the opening sequence, when Indy's (traitorous) side kick turns around and his back is covered in large spiders. My ears popped at that moment because every person in that theater simultaneously drew in a breath. Literally, the air pressure in that auditorium changed from that collective action. Amazing.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is just about as much fun as a movie can be. That is one entertaining movie.
I envy you! I was a bit too young to see it in the theatres, but the very first movie my family purchased for our first VCR was Raiders. I watched it so many times I knew every line of dialogue.😁
@@frankhassle9366 Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes.
12:54 Indy shoots the sword wielding guy because Harrison was sick that day during filming and suggested that Indy would just do that, even though it was supposed to be a choreographed fight scene.
The stunt where Indy climbs along underneath the moving truck was performed by British stunt man Vic Armstrong and is a homage to a similar stunt from the 1939 Film Stagecoach directed by John Ford, where the "truck" was a stagecoach and a team of six horses. It was all done for real in one take and is probably the most dangerous movie stunt ever caught on camera.
I really enjoyed your take on this movie, well done!
I think a close contender for the most dangerous movie stunt was the scene where Messala was trampled by chariot horses in Ben-Hur (the one from 1959). That was real too (the actor playing Messala was wearing a special armor of sorts to protect him).
Watch some of Jackie Chan's earlier movies, in particular Police Story 1&2. Some stunts where he literally could've died.
I saw a documentary about the makings of this film and i believed that it was shown that Harrison did that stunt himself. I could be mistaken because it was over 20years ago i saw the docu.
@@johnny9000 Ford did do as much as he could because he believed the audience had come to see him and deserved to see the expression on his face as he performed. The really dangerous stunts were done by stunt men.
@@bobogus7559 Stephen Boyd.
Turned 10 at the end of the summer this came out. When my mother asked what I wanted for my birthday I naturally asked for a bullwhip, which I received. Got pretty good with it. This movie was the defining cultural event of my childhood.
Funny story about Raiders is that when the film was originally released, colleges were undated for Archaeology classes resulting in some colleges publishing notices warning students that archaeology is not like Raiders and you won’t be Indiana Jones.
I'll settle if it's like Time Team and I can be Phil Harding.
The scream when she catches him with the mirror ... omg! LMAO!! 😂🤣😂🤣😊
That was funny
I used to rewind that bit on VHS back in the day, as I found the yelp so funny!
You have to wonder how Ford managed such a realistic scream without ACTUALLY having his face smashed.
I like to imagine that after all the punishment he went through that day from being beaten, shot, and thrown out of a moving truck, that final hit with the mirror was the final straw that broke him.
"Deeply offended?". He spent the past 24 hours being chased, beaten, dragged, and shot--with no sleep. I think he would be a bit tired.
Exactly what I was thinking.
I saw this movie when I was 12 in the theater, and I must have seen it 10 times there, and 100 times since then. This is my favourite movie of all time.
The treacherous guide at the beginning (“throw me the whip, I throw you the idol!”) was one of the first roles of Alfred Molina, who’s got over 200 listings on IMDB, but is probably most well-known for playing Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2, and just showed up in the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer.
Other bit parts: the “top…men” army intelligence guy is played by William Hootkins, who was in the first Star Wars movie, the first Michael Keaton Batman movie, and Flash Gordon. The ship captain, Katanga, was played by George Harris, who was also in Flash Gordon, and also played Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Harry Potter series.
"Marion's" "mouth full of bread" lines are classic. "Hmmmph. Ah bet ewe wood."
Karen Allen gave no shits lol
@@patrickgogan3517
Great character. Great performance.
It always makes me hungry for bread.
Spielberg wanted Karen Allen because of her work in _Animal House._ He said she has that demonic twinkle to match Ford.
@@jean-jacquescortes9500
I think you probably meant to post this in another thread.
"It is kinda like National Treasure". Oh, that hurt my soul to hear
I couldn't even make it through national treasure. Not even comparable.
I actually was ok with National Treasure but lets be honest, its not even in the same weight class as Indiana Jones.
Patrick Egan. Now watch the Big Bang Theory S7-E4 “ The Raiders Minimization”. It’ll floor you. Lol
@@frankiek2269 No thanks, that show is complete shit.
@@Foebane72 I posted something, but it was mean. But don’t say the show was complete sh^t. You’re not an authority on comedy. Who is? Just say you didn’t like it. That would be like me saying the “Three Stooges” is terrible. I liked it as a kid, but couldn’t watch it as a teenager.
Every second of this movie is perfection.
There's very few famous people I would actually cry if I ever met, but Steven Spielberg is one of them.
Pound for pound, the greatest piece of Film Making in history !!
22:00 They don't call it the 'Well of Souls' for nothing! The moaning sound effect was a pretty nice touch - very gruesome scene, especially when a whole chorus of them fell upon her! Marian wasn't a screamer character like Willie Scott, but she did her share in this grisly scene, and not that anyone can blame her. Karen Allen's display of horror and disgust was fantastic.
She was the best of Indy's girls.
Excellent. This is up there with Back To The Future as one of the best pure entertainment movies of all time!
Steven Spielberg was going to call this movie _Cowboy, Safari, Adventure Man,_ but he came to his senses. ;)
Also that he was going to cast Tom selleck thank goodness he didn't
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@@garyclarke9685 Tom Selleck actually did get the part of Indiana Jones but _Magnum P.I._ was picked up as a series and he was under contract for that and CBS would not let him take the part of Indy.
@@PopcornInBed On the myth, spirits side of movies you should check out ` Poltergeist ` from 1982... it`s got to be 1 of the best movies of the 1980s :):)
The ultimate is ` The Thing ` by John Carpenter.... :):)
😂 😂 😂
"Hunky Adventure Man" has me cracking up! Love your personality Cassie!
I was 12 when this was in the theater. We stood in a line that went around the back side of the theater waiting to get in.
I had such a big crush on Karen Allen after this movie. :D
Fun Fact: "Sallah" (actor John Rhys-Davies) is also "Gimli" in *Lord of the Rings 1-3*
Also, Raiders was made in 1981, "National Treasure" was made in 2004
You said, Raiders is sort of like National Treasure; it's the other way around, National Treasure is sort of like "Raiders" (but Raiders is far better)
He is one of my good friends uncles.
@@croftatron That's very cool, to be so closely connected to a great actor and 4 iconic movies. If you ever see him, let him know he's greatly loved and treasured as an artist and co-star of these great moves by so many people. Myself included.
Ya, but Raiders doesn’t have The Declaration of Independence… soooo, that’s a strike against Raiders lol
@@iancampbell2517 But Raiders has melting Nazis...so checkmate LOL. Love your comment Ian. Well done.
And the voice of Treebeard.
My mom was working on her Master's degree in archeology when this movie came out. Sadly, she never got to punch any Nazis.
One of the best adventure movies of all time. Probably seen it 50 times in one form or another, and it never gets old. Thanks for sharing your experience!
I thought it was all the rage these days
Thats just what she wants you think Michael!
"Sadly, she never got to punch any Nazis."
That doesn't sound right to me at all. Isn't there a required Archeology course called Archeology 200 that is an entire course dedicated to "Punching Nazis"?
Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first movie I saw on video tape in the 80ies. My older cousin had just bought a brand new VHS recorder and invited my brother and me to come over and watch it. These are great memories.
Seeing Indy get hitting with a mirror had me dying in laughter 😂
looool 100%
Let me tell you, as someone who saw this in theater.....THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME. I saw it with both of my brothers. The face-melting scene.....I was 10 years old. This crushed me. It really can't get any better than this.
FUN FACT: the actor playing Shalla is John Rhys-Davies, better know these days for playing GIMLI in the LORD OF THE RINGS
Great in "Shogun" as well. And in the Ivanhoe movie in Sweden every new years day as Font De Beuf
I was going to comment this, too!
I used to like him in a show called Sliders in the 90’s.
@@mattiaswibom4788 Great movie/mini-series!
"Night of a Thousand Screams"
And playing MANRAY in SPONGEBOB
YES! Seeing this movie as a kid when it was first released in 1981 was totally EPIC! One of those kinds of movies that defines your childhood. Glad you got a chance to experience it also.
This was my brother's (who was also my best friend) favorite movie sadly he is no longer with us. He was a big fan of and admired Harrison Ford. Watching you see this movie for the first time made it seem fresh and new again. It made me think of him and brought a tear to my eyes (but in a good way) Thank YOU Cassie!
sorry for your loss.
"Who are these booby traps all set by?" The Acme Ambush, Pitfall, and Reset Company, Inc. Best. Leo.
Nice.very clever answer.
Leo Back in the 80s all booby traps were set by Dolly Parton.
Robot chicken explained ir
@@matsv201 Didn't see that episode. What was the explanation? Best. Leo.
@@michaelbastraw1493 well.. it was really complicated. The skid is ok youtube.
One of the greatest adventure movies of all time. The fact that it's been imitated so many times since it's release probably works against it for someone viewing it for the first time.What was once so fresh has become in time a bit trope. Hopefully not.
Often imitated, never duplicated.
Raiders of the Lost Ark was itself an imitation of the 1930's and 1940's short movie theater adventure serials, if I remember correctly.
@@mrs7195 I was going to comment this. The movie is of course inspired by the old adventure movies of Hollywood. Probably to the young audience, like our This is how the truth dies here, it's a new fact. More so, the user name most likely reveals a younger person.
Yeah, like this girl had been on the ride and knew that's where the big boulder came in to play.
It hasn't been imitated "so many times" at all!
- Romancing the Stone/Jewel of the Nile
- National Treasure/National Treasure 2
- King Solomon's Mines/Alan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
THAT'S LITERALLY IT!
And King Solomon's Mines would probably have got remade at some point anyway whilst Romancing the Stone and National Treasure aren't that much like Raiders of the Lost Ark in the first place.
The "Adventure Genre" is massively underserved by Hollywood and has been for the past 50 years!
Raiders itself was a THROWBACK and given that Romancing the Stone didn't come out till 84 and King Solomon's Mines 85 it's not like they rushed out clones of Raiders!
After the 1987 flop Alan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold the ONLY big budget "Adventure Movie" that came out in the next 16 years was Last Crusade.
There isn't a single big budget "Adventure Movie" between Last Crusade and National Treasure in 2004!
Marty's dad's laugh made me crack up for a minute lol
It's so funny to hear people describe characters before they've watched the movies, the whole "Safari... adventurer... Cowboy?" had me in stitches and I haven't even started watching the reaction yet , LOL
30:03 "Oh my gosh. What! OH, OH MY GOSH!!" yep, that is the reaction I came for!
This was the very first movie my father took me to see - no Mom, no Sister - just the boys. Like you, it remains one of my favorite movies for that reason. As an adult I appreciate it even more - fleshed out characters, perfect writing, and it consistently redirects your expectations. It’s also full of “other” stuff - the man, the job, the girl, the adventure... the types of juices that gets boys (and girls) to want to grow up and rescue people from dangerous places, run into fires, become soldiers, policemen, and dashing history professors. 😉
What boy growing up in the 80’s didn’t want a whip, a gun, the hat and a five o’clock shadow?
The only time I dislike watching The Big Bang Theory is when Amy pointed out that Indy had nothing to do with the end of movie. Killed the ending of forever. LMAO 🤣
Isn't that the whole point? He (literally) surrenders to history and then lets history play out. I 've always thought it's very in-keeping with his character.
@@PaulWhytcross I agree but anyone could do it. That's what ruins it for me.
Actually, he was the one who both found the Ark (Since the Nazis didn't have Ravenwood's diary, they wouldn't know about Marion and Nepal) and saved it from them (Had he not been present at the end, Hitler would just have sent more soldiers until they figured out they can't open it).
Die hard fans might recognize ROBERT NEVIN who played the medical examiner in JAWS lurking in the background at the very end scene discussing the location of the arc. WATCH FOR HIM!
You are in for a treat. Fantastic adventure movie! They don’t make them like this anymore.
Your face when you found out Marion is alive was priceless and cute! Looking forward your reactions for the other Indy movies :)
This was the first movie I absolutely fell in love with. I was 10 when this came out and saw it 18 times in the theater
Your eye roll when they showed the floor of snakes was perfection.
I was eight years old when this came out and I saw it in the theater. I can still hear the audience laughing and screaming during a lot of those scenes!
Me too especially the scene when Indy pulled out the gun to kill the swordsman. His idea. by the way not the director
If this movie was re released in theaters today I would be there. No doubt about it! I got it in blu ray but to see it on the big screen “take my money!!”
@@michaelschaaf5302 the indiana jones films will be released in 4k in June I think
12:48 Fun fact: they had an elaborate sword fight planned out, but Ford was sick when it was time to film it so instead they simply had Indy shoot him.
Turned out to be one of the most iconic
Then makes for a great callback/gag when Indy is about to fight with the two swordsmen before the bridge in Temple of Doom.
Most of the cast and crew had diarrhea from eating the catered food. Spielberg didn't get sick because he was known to pack his own snacks. And the shot on the swordsman wasn't scripted or directed, either, given the slightly delayed reaction in the stuntman when Ford fired the revolver.
Hey your right well half right. It was actually Harrison Ford's idea to pull out the gun & like you said it worked so well better than if they had fought
@@garyclarke9685 How is what I said “half right”?
My wife and I saw it at the Grauman's Theater in Hollywood the first weekend it came out. Big screen, great sound, and great crowd of people in the movie industry. They stayed and applauded people as the credits rolled. Movies like this ALWAYS should be seen on the big screen first and not on a home TV to do it justice. Lawrence of Arabia is another like that.
12:55 The funny thing about that scene where he just shoots the sword guy, is that he originally WAS supposed to sword fight the guy, but Harrison Ford had gotten quite sick, food poisoning or something, and he was very weak and didn’t want to hold up shooting the scenes. So he begged them to just let him shoot the guy so they changed it lol
I heard it was malaria but I think someone said something like "why doesn't he just shoot the guy?" So that's what they did which ends up being one of the best parts of the movie lol
@@natemalnaa1 Isn’t it great how sometimes in the movies things like that work out that way?!
@@artman2oo3 right?! It's still one of the best parts of that movie lol
Raiders was based on "serials" from the 1940's. The serials were 20 minute movies with a cliffhanger ending. Raiders is like a series of serials, stuck together, only made better. There were leaps where you would have to suspend disbelief, like a submarine riding on the surface would have at least one officer and one enlisted man on the sub's conning tower at ALL times, even in peacetime-so, no way that indy made a long journey on the sub's deck without being noticed. Likewise, from the 40's serials, you have to leave disbelief at the door because Zorro was obviously a man of means and how many men of means did you have in Los Angeles in the 1740's? Not many. That no one would recognize him?
Still, it's fun to watch Raiders and did Harrison do ALL of his stunts? No, just some of them. For instance, where he shot the man with the giant sword, Harrison was supposed to fight him, but on that particular day, everyone on the crew-and Harrison (except the director) had food poisoning and Harrison only came out of his trailer for a few minutes and asked the director:"Can I just shoot him?" So he did and immediately went back to his trailer.
They ate a bad date
I was 11 years old in 1981 when my Aunt took me to see this film in the theatre.
Yes it was just as epic as you imagined it would have been! I put together a costume back then as a kid with an old black cowboy hat, leather jacket and cheap flea market whip.
And today now in my 50s I cosplay at conventions as Indiana Jones!
One of the greatest adventure movies of all time!
The guy with Harrison Ford when he is going after the idol in the beginning is Alfred Molina, he also plays Doctor Octopus in the Sam Raimi Spiderman 2.
One of my all-time favorite movies and it holds a special place inside of me because it was the very very first movie that I saw in a movie theater.
I was 11 years old in 1981when I went to the theater with my best friend, we looked at the posters and saw this 'Raiders' thing we'd never heard of, so decided to watch it since it had Han Solo in it... When it was over we walked out the door, around the building, and got back in line to watch it again! My friend and I had done the same thing at the same theater a few years earlier with a movie called 'Star Wars'... It was fun to watch your reaction to this epic timeless flick!
I did the same thing. Blew my entire allowance and got grounded for coming home late due to it until two nights later my folks took us to it for family movie afterwards the manager told them I had seen twice already. Dad laughed and ungrounded means gave me my allowance back. One of my all time fav films
The best opening sequence of all time, IMO.
Yeah I loved the opening sequence & the way we saw Harrison
Classic
I'm answer to your comment at the end; I first saw Raiders as an 11 year old kid in 1981.
I have a very clear memory of it, I was staying for a weekend with my uncle and aunt in London.
They didn't really know how to entertain me, so took me to the cinema and Raiders was showing... none of us had heard of it, and we all went in completely clean slate unaware of what it was.
I was blown away, I can still remember the laughter and fun of seeing it.
We noticed the movie Blue Thunder was also playing, so we went back and saw that the following evening.
Man, that was a good weekend. I can still remember excitedly telling my parents a play by play of the plot when they came to get me at the end of the weekend. :)
Thank you so much for reacting to my all-time favorite movie. Watching your reaction brought me right back to why I love this movie so much. I did see it in theaters when I was 8-years old and it absolutely blew my mind. I think, to this day, it is the best adventure film ever made, and Indiana Jones is an absolute iconic character. He succeeds, but everything is hard and he's tired and gets beat up a lot - it makes him so endearing as a character. My mother and Marion are why I have always loved strong female characters. Such a great movie and I had a lot of fun re-experiencing it through your eyes. Thank you again. I just discovered your channel and will be watching more. 😄
“Well that was very gruesome!”
Have you ever read the Old Testament?
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword (Joshua 6:21). Oh, and rains of fire, pillars of salt, this and that. YHVH is a jealous god.
Well it’s said that you cannot be in God’s presence or look upon His face without your physical body being destroyed. And considering what the Nazis were at that time doing to God’s own people, the Jews it makes perfect sense that God would use the Ark to destroy any of the evil that sought to use His power and His symbols to bring more evil on the earth.
God forbid! oh wait...
That's just what the Hebrews thought ...
In the truck chase scene, Harrison only did the stunt where Indy is hanging on to the front grille, and where he's being dragged behind the truck. A stuntman did the part where Indy was hanging onto the undercarriage.
That's correct. Harrison did an incredible job just doing those stunts you mentioned & every other stunt in the film. Good on him
That stunt was inspired by one that Yakima Canutt created and performed in westerns in the 30s, only he used a stagecoach.
@@porflepopnecker4376 Yes, I know. They mentioned those old stagecoach stunts in the behind the scenes documentary of Raiders of the Lost Ark that aired on CBS in the early 80s, which Harrison narrated.
@@porflepopnecker4376 I heard that too & saw it in a western
@@garyclarke9685 he tore his ligaments performing the flying wing stunts when they ran over his knee. Tough guy.
I've seen most of the movies you react to MANY times, but watching your reactions and listening to your comments make me see aspects of the films I never considered. It's like watching them for the first time again. Love your work!
It makes me happy you (and others) are watching, reviewing, and bringing modern attention to so many fantastic classics like this from the 80s and 90s. I grew up on this as a kid and it was a wonderful time with so many classics being turned out every year with endless film making talent. In the span of just the early 1980s, there's probably 50+ classics.
My friend from Uganda was bitten by a King Cobra. The venom melted the bones in his leg. It blew my mind their venom was so treacherous. I always remember that watching this movie.
His leg was so messed up I thought he was born with a birth defect.
He could still run very fast, even with his deformed leg. Which was amazing to me.
A king cobra or an Egyptian cobra/asp? I'm just wondering how a snake from India ended up in Uganda otherwise.
This is a great choice, a great movie for everyone.
This movie was supposedly produced as a tribute to the movie serials of early cinema (Flash Gordon, Superman, The Lone Ranger, etc.). You can distinctly identify several sections of the movie that could be standalone cliffhanger episodes where at the end you would hear the announcer say something like "How will Indy get out of this one? Stay tuned next week for the next exciting chapter of Raiders of the Lost Ark."
FYI, the actor who plays Sallah also plays Gimli in The Lord of The Rings!
That propeller death was the most brutal thing I had ever seen up to that point. Made a real impression.
Good though it wasn't shown though. It didn't need to be
Well...at least until the yahtzees died at the end.
For Quint's death in Jaws was more brutal. Jaws, also a Spielberg movie.
He was alright though, he turned up in wrestling and Auf Wiedersehn, Pet after, so no harm done. ;)
In case you are curious about the ark of the covenant: The ark of the covenant is described in detail in the Old Testament of the Bible. It represented God's presence among his people. It was kept in a room of the tabernacle (and later the temple) called the Holy of Holies or the most holy place. The high priest entered that room once a year to sprinkle the blood of a sacrifice on the cover. Inside the ark were the ten commandments, the staff of Moses' brother (it budded miraculously), and some of the manna that the Israelites ate when they traveled from Egypt to Canaan. No one was supposed to touch the ark, since it was Holy. That is why those poles were there for lifting it. In the Bible there is only record of one man dying when he touched it, and it was without all the drama that Spielberg shows. What the movie says about laying waste to landscapes is not biblically accurate. There is at least one time that the Israelites brought it into battle with them, but there is no record of the ark decimating any foes.
Instead, the Ark was captured. And, indirectly, it did decimate their foes: the Philistines who captured it were plagued with rats and some disease that gave them tumours (possibly the bubonic plague.
The Ark was carried before the Israelites as the Vanguard of God. The gold lid with cherubims was called the Mercy Seat and was the throne of God in the inner part of the Temple, as Sam said, the Holy of Holies. When Moses' successor Joshua led the people into the Promised Land, they crossed the Jordan River. When the priests carrying the Ark touched the river, it backed up and dried, allowing the people to cross the river. Once the people crossed, the priests carrying the Ark continued onward and the river flowed again. The famed battle of Jericho was another act of God using the Ark. On the 7th day, God ordered the Ark carried around the walled city of Jericho 7 times (the first 6 days only one trip each day) and blowing their trumpets. After the seventh trip around, the walls miraculously fell outward, God provided access to the city. One very interesting note most people don't know, as Sam mentioned about the yearly visit of the High Priest into the Holy of Holies, the priest's robes had bells on the hem, and they had a rope tied around them. After a period of long silence of the bells, the other priests could pull the High Priest out by the rope. This was in case the High Priest did something wrong, and God struck them down in the Holy of Holies. I don't recall if this ever actually happened, but it was a "safety measure" to retrieve a dead High Priest if needed.
I love how the scene where Indy was threatening to blow up the Ark was filmed in the same location that R2D2 was captured by the Jawas in Star Wars episode IV A New Hope.
"Get outta my truck!" .... This made me smile because this being the 1st Harrison Ford movie watched means she couldn't have seen Airforce One.
Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Back to the Future, the 3 most perfectly entertaining escapist films ever and Harrison Ford starred in two of them.
Spielberg and Lucas are great filmmakers
He drives the Jeep that Marty grabs onto while skateboarding at the start of the movie, so 3/3 attendance
Raiders is my all time favourite movie. I've seen it hundreds of times and I still believe its a perfect movie.
Loved this movie as a teenager when it premiered, watching your reactions made it fun all over again! Keep'em coming!!
One of the BEST reactions I have ever seen to the face melting. This film (as many films in the 80's were) is true entertainment. Love seeing your honest reactions!
If I were on a desert island and could only watch one movie, this would be it. Glad you enjoyed it!
Honestly, your recall of the characters, their names and what was going on with the movie in real time was kindof amazing.
If you want something from the same era (1980’s) with a little Australian flair, try “The Man from Snowy River” with Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, and your own Kirk Douglas.
Fun factoid: this was John-Rhys Davies' (Salla) first movie roll, and second gig ever. His first acting gig was a TV role on the mini-series Shogun.
When I did my archaeology masters, one of my colleagues asked when he got the jacket, hat and whip to our tutor because of this movie series!
"...I liked that Marion...was not like your classic damsel in distress..." So...maybe skip past Temple of Doom...?
No, because then she might not skip CRYSTAL SKULL.
Sheesh.....Willie cannot be given any credit for anything can she?.....Never mind getting the mine cart started, saving Short Round's life on the bridge, punching the big thuggee henchman off the cart and helping to free the children.
Sometimes I wonder if a lot of people watched TOD after the first 20 mins because honestly, Willie changes a great deal throughout the film.
@@cockerpoodles1238 she really does, and also...she's SUPPOSED to be annoying.
@@Kasino80 She was successful.
3 things..
1) when I saw this in the movie theatre for the first and second time as a child I actually laughed at the warehouse scene .. you have to understand that Raider's really pushed the envelope of movie making, the idea that after all those adventures and literally living through hell back to then simply watch as this amazing artifact gets 'put away' anonymously as they pan out to this immense warehouse was pretty amusing.
2) when I was young the scene where Indiana was scaling underneath the truck was a subject of much debate because some felt he wouldn't have survived the encounter even with a thick leather jacket on.
3) You noted it as well in your reaction piece .. but when I think of what is the hallmark of a truly great film .. I constantly dwell how much I enjoyed Belloq's booming laughter. It makes that entire chase scene epic.
It's a rule of the genre that if the McGuffin is a historical or legendary object, it must be lost again with no proof it was ever found.
"And I know the theme song."
Starts humming the theme to "Bonanza." Seriously, you just made my week. LOL!